The Security Policy Network was created in 2015 at the initiative of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru’s Institute of International Studies and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. It is currently made up of specialists and professors from the aforementioned university, as well as academics from the University of Brasilia, the University of Chile, the Bolivian Catholic University, the Pontifical Javeriana University of Bogotá and Ecuador’s Institute of Higher National Studies. In 2021, the Network published its seventh book, an analysis of the security implications of the presence of the People’s Republic of China in the South American region.